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Critics Group Winners Could Give Academy Members More Guidance Than Usual This Year

Critics Group Winners Could Give Academy Members More Guidance Than Usual This Year IndieWire 12/21/2020 The annual year-end film industry rituals continue as critics groups vote for the best of the year, with the results of the New York Film Critics Circle announced on Friday, and the Los Angeles Film Critics following on Sunday. And this time around, Academy voters could really use the input. While some moved back their deadlines along with the Oscars including the usual first taste-setter, the National Board of Review, as well as the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards the two most influential critics groups chose not to wait. As a result, their winners could provide some guidance in this most unusual Oscar season.

The Best Movies To Watch On Netflix In December 2020

Premise: George C. Wolfe directed this biographical drama about blues singer Ma Rainey. The story is an adaptation of a 1982 August Wilson play. The movie centers on a day in 1927 when Ma Rainey recorded music with a backing band in Chicago. The musicians trade stories of dreams and struggles being Black in America between attempts to create memorable music in the studio. Netflix descriptors: “Cerebral,” “emotional” and “music” Ma Rainey s Black Bottom /Netflix The opening of Ma Rainey s Black Bottom on Netflix. How it starts: In a forest at night, crickets chirp and owls hoot. After a few seconds, two people run through the dark woods, panting. A dog barks. The camera zooms in on the runners, two Black men. The men arrive at a gathering place. Text appears: Barnesville, Georgia, 1927. The men join a line of people waiting to enter a tent where Ma Rainey will perform.

Netflix, Stan, Amazon, Disney, Binge and more: What s new to stream in December

Netflix, Stan, Amazon, Disney, Binge and more: What s new to stream in December
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Amazon s Time, Netflix s Mank among the best movies of 2020

Babyteeth (iTunes, GooglePlay) An adaptation of screenwriter Rita Kalnejais’ 2012 stage play of the same name, feature debutant director Shannon Murphy crafted a brilliantly executed coming-of-age drama, a blackly comedic look at a family in crisis and one of the best contemporary tales from our mates across the Tasman since 2010’s Animal Kingdom. Delivering a raw, utterly convincing turn (she even apparently shaved her own head for the role) as a young woman trying to make the most of what’s left of her life, Eliza Scanlen is a mesmerising centre around which this, sometimes, stunning film revolves. Supplied Dark Waters (Neon, iTunes, GooglePlay)

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“Man k” (Netflix): I’ve always been drawn to tales of the writers who originally congregated at the Algonquin Round Table in 1920s New York and then made the trek out to Hollywood, where writers were paid ridiculous sums to craft often-silly and formulaic screenplays. One of them, Herman Manckiewicz, a witty, cynical alcohol played to the hilt by Gary Oldman, was hired in 1940 by Orson Welles to write the screenplay for what would become “Citizen Kane.” He spent months in the desert with a broken leg and a lot of booze creating the first draft, much of which survived the final script. The film goes back and forth in time, revealing Mank as a popular party guest for his court jester bon mots, his contempt for studio boss Louis B. Mayer (Arliss Howard, excellent), and his sort-of-friendship with both newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst (a spot-on Charles Dance) and his mistress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried), both of whom were the models for “Citizen

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